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My beagle knows to come, but I’ve heard that when they are outside it is a completely different ballgame. Anything I can do immediately to make beagles come back and not continue to follow smells. I am worried that one day Jaeger might get loose and he’ll run away because I know beagles tend to be more interested in following sents outside.
My beagle knows to come, but I’ve heard that when they are outside it is a completely different ballgame. Anything I can do immediately to make beagles come back and not continue to follow smells. I am worried that one day Jaeger might get loose and he’ll run away because I know beagles tend to be more interested in following sents outside.
August 3rd, 2008 at 2:21 am
trust me i have to same dog. mine got out once.he ran his walk route and then sorta ran up a street near my house. beagles are stupid amd will stop to pee on trees and stuff
August 3rd, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Do not do not do not let him get away! Believe me, my beagle has gotten loose when someone forgot to keep an eye on her. Imagine a wild goose chase that lasted all through the night. I thank the heavens there was a light layer of snow so I could follow her footsteps. It was not fun!
They will indeed follow their nose! All sense and commands go out the window when they hit a good smell.
If he does get out, you must be fast, sprint after him even if you have no shoes on and bring treats! My beagle has since gotten loose once or twice, but after a mad dash she got caught after stopping for a sniff a second too long.
August 4th, 2008 at 5:46 am
You should take him for a walk around your block every day so he knows where he is and knows where to go if he wants to go home! But if you think he will get out get a better fence or something!
Make him know where his home is! My cat knows to trust me that will work! Once we could not find both of our dogs and we kept searching and then finally we came home and they where in our front yard just relaxing! ( this was a while ago they are both dead we have a new dog) ! Hope I helped! =D
Just make him know where his house is and try to get a better fence!
August 4th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
If you can afford to fence in your yard or part of it either with an invisible fence(under ground) or an above ground type. You may chose to keep him on a lead when he is outside. Other than that I don’t know of any other options. What ever you do make sure he always has a collar with tags and get him microchiped or tattooed something permanent that he can’t lose if he gets loose.
August 7th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
Just some advice if he doesn’t come back when you call him and you have to chase him down…many people make the mistake of yelling at, or hitting, the dog, because they are angry that they had to chase it down, and some feel by hitting or yelling at it, it will understand the next time. What invariably happens is the dog remembers that he was punished the last time, and may be less likely to come back the next time for fear of being punished again. Just a thought.
August 10th, 2008 at 12:45 am
Get him microchipped, so that animal control can get him back to you.
I walk my beagle/basset mix with a no-pull harness, makes it easier on me, and I don’t have to worry about him breaking through his collar.
August 10th, 2008 at 4:37 am
Make sure the beagle has a collar and tags to identify him in case he does get away. The only think you can do is call his name and follow him if he runs off. I had avid microchip put in my dog so even if he runs away he can still be identified.
August 10th, 2008 at 6:09 am
Teach him to come to an emergency sound as a bell maybe? Or get food out like ham…
August 11th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
I have a beagle as well and have the exact same concerns…I guess you will just never know unless you are in that situation. I would think if he does listen to you when you are inside, he would listen if you saw him run off. However, if you didn’t see him leave, he will start to wander.
My beagle listens, but only when he wants to, he got out the door once (I was taking the garbage out and he snuck out) but I saw him, I yelled at him to come and he stopped dead in his tracks.
Do you have a microchip in him..its pretty reasonable, that way if he gets lose and looses his collar, any police or fire station, vet, animal shelter can scan his neck and have all of your information. (my brother just saved a dog that had the microchip last week, so I know it works!)
August 14th, 2008 at 5:07 am
Your beagle is going to follow SCENTS no matter what you do-it is in their nature! Beagles know only one direction- AWAY.
Unless you have taken him through some real intensive training, he is going to follow his nose.
We’ve had that problem with our 6 year old beagle….and the only thing we are lucky about is our older son had taught him to know what ‘Scooby Snacks’ meant. (he was a Scooby Doo addict as a kid and found Scooby Snacks for dogs in the store). It didn’t take long for ‘Woody’ to realize that if someone said ‘scooby snack’ it meant a treat for him!
So if we yell out ‘scooby snack’ and hold up anything between 2 fingers and he sees it, he makes a beeline back to us to get his snack! And sometimes he’s a dumbdog…I’ve tricked him with a keychain, bottle cap, anything he thinks is a treat. So get a box of some sort of low calorie treat, and RESTRICT him to only getting a couple a day-get him to do SOMETHING to earn it-sit, roll over, lay down…don’t just give them out for nothing. Then it will make it more of a treat to him. Then get one of the ‘windup’ lead ropes and let him all the way out-get him exploring smells and stuff…and try just holding one up and calling ‘scooby snack’ and see if it works. Eventually he’ll know that phrase means he gets a snack for doing something good-and you have a chance of getting him to come to you when he escapes!
My dad had a beautiful beagle bitch for years-and I remember many times going rabbit hunting with him and she’d take off in a straight line AWAY and never come back. We’d wait around for a long time-go home, and come back the next morning…she’d be sitting by the edge of the woods waiting for us!
August 14th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
yeah its like that, my shiba(read on shibas there FAST) she gets out all the time, u have to go run for her
August 17th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Teach an emergency command like “Touch”. To do this, say the command and hold food where your dog can see it, When she comes for the food, put your hand on her collar and give her the food. Then do it again. And again. And again. Do it 10 times a day for a couple of weeks. Practice it periodically after that. Do it when you are on a walk and she is on a leash. Pretty soon, she will always come running when she hears that word. The key to this is to ALWAYS reward the dog for following the command with food. If you practice this enough you should not have to worry. I was taught this technique by a dog trainer, and I used it to save my Cattle Dog when she was about to run into traffic after a squirrel. This dog is very intense when she focuses on something (like a squirrel), but she broke back for the command.
You can teach a dog to do anything you want very reliably. It just takes time and patience.
P.S., when training a dog you would not normally give them food every time once they learn a command. This emergency command is an exception… ALWAYS reward it. If you need to use it and you do not have a treat with you, get one ASAP and say the command again and then reward.
August 19th, 2008 at 9:16 am
Take him to a large enclosed space and teach him to come. Then you can burn off some of his energy chasing a ball.
Exercise him lots on the lead as well, this is good for general discipline. Make him walk in good order, not in front of you, and with a slack lead. If he’s a puppy, or very full of energy, he may find this difficult until he has burned off a bit of energy.
He shouldn’t leave the house in front of you, or without permission, even when on the lead.
Teach him to sit, lie down and stay. You can do this just across a room. It’s easy to get most dogs to follow a bit of food in your hand with their nose. Say the command, hold the food enclosed in your hand and don’t give it before he obeys. The quicker he gets it after he obeys the better.
Once he will stay you can move on to stay while you leave the room (with the door open). Then you can move on to the front door, and the garden gate.
By this time your control over him should be good enough that if you drop the lead he will just stop. If you put plenty of adventure and challenge into his life he will be less inclined to find them for himself.
August 20th, 2008 at 6:01 am
Make sure that he doesn’t have a chance to run away. Get a good fence if you don’t have one, or fix the one you have so he has no way of getting loose.
You won’t need to worry about him getting loose if he has no way of getting loose.